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Bamako – Hundreds of supporters of exiled former Malian president Amadou Toumani Toure, who was overthrown in a military coup in 2012, called for his return on Thursday in rallies held in several cities. The gathering in the capital Bamako drew more than a thousand people,...

Bamako – Mali vowed Monday not to bow to terror and to punish the jihadists behind a deadly nightclub attack in the capital, as local and French investigators joined forces to hunt down the killers. Bamako has been on high alert since a heavily-armed gunman burst into La...

Nouakchott – A jihadist group run by a leading Algerian militant claimed responsibility Saturday for the deaths of five people in an attack on a nightclub popular with foreigners in the Malian capital Bamako. A spokesman for the Al-Murabitoun group, headed by Mokhtar...

Gao – Two suspected bombers were lynched and burned by a mob in northern Mali’s largest town on Saturday, security sources told AFP. “The two young people had planted bombs not far from the Gao river police. They were ready to set them off remotely when they...

Bamako – Five people including two Europeans and a Malian police officer were killed in an assault on a Bamako nightclub Saturday, in the first suspected attack targeting Westerners in a city braced for jihadist violence since 2012. At least one masked gunman entered the...

Nouakchott – Timbuktu, which won seven Cesar awards — France’s version of the Oscars — on Friday tells the story of northern Mali under the control of jihadists, in a foreshadowing of the rise of the Islamic State group. Among its haul, it scooped the...

A suicide attack in the disputed north Malian town of Tabankort killed at least five people overnight, according to two Tuareg rebel sources on Wednesday. A source for the main Tuareg rebel group MNLA said that multiple suicide bombers from a rival, pro-government militia...

After a hard hit on Cameroon by Nigeria’s dreaded Islamist group, Boko Haram, Ghana is leaving no stone unturned to protect its citizenry from terror attacks. The Interior Ministry has indicated that security forces in Ghana are already engaged in anti- terrorism activities which...

The Malian government and the United Nations on Sunday declared the country free of Ebola after 42 days without any new cases of the deadly virus. Health Minister Ousmane Kone said no confirmed cases had been registered since December 6 when the last Ebola patient had tested...

Bamako – Mali named a new prime minister on Thursday with Modibo Keita taking over after Moussa Mara resigned under pressure from the president of the strife-torn west African nation. Modibo Keita, who has been leading peace negotiations with rebel groups, was appointed by...

In spite of the new found status of Nigeria as the largest economy in Africa, the country has been ranked not only as one of the world’s least prosperous countries in 2014, but also one of Africa’s poorest nation beaten by smaller countries like Niger, Benin, Mali and Cameroun,...

Nouakchott – A summit on security in the sub-Saharan Sahel region of Africa, where armed Islamic extremists linked to al-Qaeda are active, opened Thursday in Mauritania, attended by five heads of state. The meeting was part of the “Nouakchott Process”, named for...